Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Facileforms (com_facileforms) component for Joomla! and Mambo allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the Itemid parameter to index.php.
CVE-2009-4578 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 3 products from joomla, from mambo-foundation, from facileforms organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.
Documented in 2010, this vulnerability occurred amid the cloud computing expansion era, where traditional network perimeter security models were being reevaluated. Organizations were transitioning from isolated infrastructure to interconnected systems, creating new attack surfaces that vulnerabilities like this could exploit.
2010-01-06T22:00:09.450
2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Deferred
CVSSv2: 4.3 (MEDIUM)
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
8.6
2.9
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version/Range | Vulnerable? |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | joomla | joomla\! | * | No |
| Application | mambo-foundation | mambo | * | No |
| Application | facileforms | facileforms | * | Yes |
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